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Monday, May 1st, 2023
11:00am – 1:00pm
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Caltech Connect suicide prevention training for faculty

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Evaporation Barrier for Dark Matter in Celestial Bodies
Javier F. Acevedo, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Topological two-band electron-hole superconductors with d-wave symmetry: a possible application to magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene
Carlos Sa De Melo, Georgia Tech,
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar

West Bridge B157 (CMP Conference Room)
Josephson junction arrays as a platform for topological phases of matter
Omri Lesser, Weizmann Institute of Science,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
The Master Equation in Mean Field Games
Mohit Bansil, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Dimers and embeddings
Marianna Russkikh, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Your physics in PRL
Sami Mitra, Editor, Physics Review Letters,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special ACM Seminar

Annenberg 104
Asymptotic Stability in a Free Boundary PDE Model of Active Matter
Leonid Berlyand, Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University,
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series

See event detail for location
Quantum thermal state preparation
Chi-Fang (Anthony) Chen, Brandao Group,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Measurable Vizing's theorem
Jan Grebík, Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick,
12:15pm – 1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Seminar

Online Event
AGN Can Dominate Host-Galaxy-Scale Cold Dust Emission
Chris Hayward, Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar

Linde Hall 310
Critical JT Gravity
Alicia Castro, High Energy Physics Department, Radboud University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM (Neugebauer Lecture)

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Simple Behavior from Complex Galaxies
George Helou, Research Professor of Physics; Executive Director of IPAC, California Institute of Technology,
Thursday, May 4th, 2023
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
The unipotent mixing conjecture
Philippe Michel, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Black Hole Accretion from the Inside Out
Jason Dexter, University of Colorado, Boulder and JILA,
Friday, May 5th, 2023
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Kinetic Theory of Waves for Turbulent States
Vladimir Rosenhaus, CUNY Graduate Center,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Unconditional Separations with Constant Depth Circuits
Adam Bene Watts, University of Waterloo,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Hierarchical Black Hole Mergers: A Multi-Band Opportunity for Gravitational Waves
Giacomo Fragione, Research Assistant Professor, CIERA, Northwestern University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Keck 142
Piezoelectric Quantum Microsystems
Matt Eichenfield, Associate Professor, Optical Sciences, University of Arizona,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Fixed point-free pseudo-Anosovs and the cinquefoil
Luya Wang, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
Monday, May 8th, 2023
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Reduction of Brauer classes on K3 surfaces
Salim Tayou, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Online and In-Person Event
Radio stars and exoplanets: Sources in circularly-polarised radio surveys, present and future
Joe Callingham, ASTRON / Leiden Observatory,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Matching Effective Theories Efficiently (Matchete) and dealing with evanescent operators
Julie Pages, UC San Diego,
Tuesday, May 9th, 2023
11:00am – 1:00pm
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Caltech Connect suicide prevention training for staff and postdocs

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
"A Pinch of Salt, a Splash of Water, and a Dash of Ions: The Recipe for Tweaking Polyelectrolyte Complexes' Glass Transition and Relaxation Time"
Jodie Lutkenhaus, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Presidential Impact Fellow, Axalata Coating Sytems Chair, Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M,
6:00pm – 8:00pm
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Caltech Connect suicide prevention training for students

Online Event
Wednesday, May 10th, 2023
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series

Online Event
Lower bounds on the overhead of a quantum memory
Omar Fawzi, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Every CBER is smooth below the Carlson-Simpson generic partition
Allison Wang, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University,
12:15pm – 1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Seminar

IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Microlensing Observations with Spitzer, Gaia and Roman Satellites
Krzysztof Rybicki, Department of Particle Physics & Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Evolution of Stellar Rotation: Alone and Together, Inside and Out
Jamie Tayar, Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Florida,
7:30pm – 8:30pm
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Watson Lecture: Making Wearable Materials Smarter

Online and In-Person Event
Chiara Daraio, G. Bradford Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics; Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator, Division of Engineering and Applied Science,
Thursday, May 11th, 2023
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Topological frequency conversion in Weyl semimetals
Frederik Nathan, Quantum and Condensed Matter Physics, University of Copenhagen,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
The Deep Synoptic Array: the origins of fast radio bursts
Vikram Ravi, Caltech,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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KISS Lecture: ESA's Vision for Mars Exploration

Chen 100
Friday, May 12th, 2023
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Watson 104
Lighting up the brain: Wafer-scale integrated photonics for implantable neural interfaces
Joyce Poon, Max Planck Institute,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
An On-Shell Approach to Self-Force on Gravitational Plane Waves
Andrea Cristofoli, University of Edinburgh,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Light induced metastable spin-orbital order in Ca2RuO4
Xinwei Li, Troesh Postdoctoral Scholar,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Instanton Operator in Lattice QCD from Higher Category Theory
Jingyuan Chen, Tsinghua University,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
New populations of white dwarfs revealed by Gaia
Sihao Cheng, Postdoctoral Fellow, IAS, Princeton and Perimeter Institute,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
An $L_\infty$-module structure on annular Khovanov homology
Champ Davis, Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon,
Monday, May 15th, 2023
12:30pm – 1:30pm
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INQNET Seminar Series

Lauritsen 269
Entanglement of trapped-ion qubits separated by 230 meters
Tracy Northup, University of Innsbruck,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 387
G-functions and Atypicality
David Urbanik, IHES & MSRI,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Online and In-Person Event
Mo' Data, No Problem: Into the Age of Industrial Scale Astronomy
Xinlun Cheng, University of Virginia,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Challenges for nuclear physics in accelerator-based neutrino experiments
Alexis Nikolakopoulos, Fermilab,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Realizing non-Abelian statistics using graph gauge theory on a quantum processor
Eun-Ah Kim, Professor, Department of Physics, Cornell University,
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap

"Cosmology" and "Dark Matter"
Sofia Gallego, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
Leonidas Moustakas, Research Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Tuesday, May 16th, 2023
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Grief and Loss Group

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
How hard will it be to simulate quantum hydrodynamics?
Christopher D White, QuICS, University of Maryland,
2:30pm – 3:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 310
Codimension one stability of the catenoid under the hyperbolic vanishing mean curvature flow
Sung-Jin Oh, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
3:30pm – 4:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 310
Ghost effect from Boltzmann theory
Lei Wu, Department of Mathematics, Lehigh University,